Hmm, there has got to be an easy way to put together an alt language version of the site

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Mon Dec 14, 2009 7:39 pm

Ebly

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Re: French translation

There probably is, but I would be of no help whatsoever! :BHooray!

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Mon Dec 14, 2009 8:00 pm

Sinder

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Re: French translation

You might be able to rig up some kind of toggle script that loads the alt-language strips instead of the English ones, but if you wanted to go farther than that, you'd have to re-write the whole site for any particular language you wanted to support.

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Mon Dec 14, 2009 8:25 pm

Ebly

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Re: French translation

Sinder wrote:

You might be able to rig up some kind of toggle script that loads the alt-language strips instead of the English ones, but if you wanted to go farther than that, you'd have to re-write the whole site for any particular language you wanted to support.

Ehhh, that's what I was afraid of. Creating a toggle script would be easy enough that even I could do it, but rewriting the site for each language is just tedious and would take up a whole lot of space. :/

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Mon Dec 14, 2009 8:41 pm

Foldo

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Re: French translation

Thanks all for your encouragements. ^^

Ebly wrote:

Good luck with translating the puns, I know they've had difficulty with the puns in the Spanish and Italian translations.

I confirm. ^^"

rickgriffin wrote:

Hmm, there has got to be an easy way to put together an alt language version of the site

That would be nice.

I post a new strip translated and I bed down (that's almost 3 am in France ).

i don't speak french, though some words i can comprehend. Plus, given the fact that we already know what's the original text, it makes it easier read through the translation.OK, I'd have SOME problems with Arabic, Russian, Chinese and so on... But it'd be very fun to see the translations of that, too

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Tue Dec 15, 2009 10:04 am

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Re: French translation

Okay ^^

The first strip translation has been changed ans I have translated a new strip. Good night (1 am in France).

Since it is the Christmas holidays, I translate the current strips while continuing the translation of olds.I had to change the size of two text boxes, one for each day. Will you be able to find them? (thank you to those who helped me)

I re-read it more slowly and I might have found some translation errors:

Foldo wrote:

Qu'il Pleuve !

The original "Let there be rain" is lampooned from the bible's "Let there be light." In French, this would be "Que la lumiÃ¨re soit", so maybe it should be translated "Que la pluie soit". Currently, it translates back as "let it rain" (but not yet sounding like a lampoon of "Let it snow").Of course, you might be referencing something else here. The Spanish version of "It's raining, it's pouring, the old man is snoring" goes "Â¡Que llueva! Â¡Que llueva! Â¡La vieja estÃ¡ en la cueva!" (literally, "Let it rain! Let it rain! The old lady is in the cave!") If French has a similar song, this might just work as it is.

Foldo wrote:

Qui a dit qu'il ne jouait pas au jeu ?!

I was wondering, wouldn't Rex know that Grape is a girl? (Of course, using "elle" would ruin the joke at the end of the arc, maybe if we went for something neutral? Such as "Qui a dit Ã§a ?! Qui ne jouait pas au jeu ?!"

The original has "spearbearers", in plural. This leaves the possibility that the "hundred lions in tribal gear" are the ones carrying spears.The other possible objection is that "lancier" implies they know how to use the spear â€“spearbearers only implies they are carrying the spears, possibly as squiresâ€“ but I can't think of anything better ("porte-lances" sounds kind of silly), so let's just leave it at that.

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Wed Jan 20, 2010 8:18 pm

Ebly

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Re: French translation: the latest one-offs

Some of those seem a bit nit-picky to me, Frank.It's also possible that the perfect, direct translation would be considered a strange thing to say for someone who spoke the language as their first.

But anyway, I've forgotten all my French vocab so I can't really offer any help. It's all up to our resident French national, Foldo! :D

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Wed Jan 20, 2010 9:50 pm

Foldo

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Re: French translation: 2 One-offs and Cat Tail (1/9)

Frank wrote:

I re-read it more slowly and I might have found some translation errors.

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